Re: Draft Report of 7 June TWG Meeting

["David P. Kemp" <dpkemp@missi.ncsc.mil>]

> From: "Bob Jueneman" <bjueneman@novell.com>
> 
> Now, if you were to propose that we deprecate the nonRepudiation bit 
completely,
> and define a new keyUsage called "signedTransaction" without any of the 
> baggage that says that no matter what the circumstances were, I couldn't 
possibly
> disavow the legal consequences of the contents of that signed transactions, 
even 
> if I did in fact not sign the transaction in question, then I would support 
you.


I would gladly support an X.509 Defect Report changing the name of
bit 1 from "nonRepudiation" to "signedTransaction" or "dataSigning" or
"provableDataOriginAuthentication", if such a step had the backing of
those who don't want to use bit 1 simply because of its name.

Dave